Peculiarities of influence of non-governmental organizations on the relationship of application sanitary and phytosanitary measures

Abstract

The article is devoted to the role and influence of non-governmental organizations on the application of sanitary and phytosanitary measures. The study identifies and analyzes three groups of issues, including: the issue of impact (providing access to the WTO decision-making process), the issue of justice, which is giving NGOs the right to appeal to a WTO dispute settlement body, and the issue of standards, which includes issues of setting private standards that are different or stricter than international ones.
 It is noted that international non-governmental organizations are also entrusted with the important task of facilitating the settlement of trade and political disputes by involving their experts as independent experts to draw objective conclusions. Another international legal form of participation of international non-governmental organizations in the activities of the WTO is the study of the impact on development and the environment.
 Taking into account the fact that there are very few procedural opportunities for non-governmental organizations to participate in trade disputes, as organizations and other individuals are deprived of the right to act as a full party to a trade dispute under the WTO procedure, the article raises the issue of legal procedure, that would enable non-governmental organizations and individuals to initiate in their country the process of submitting an application to the WTO Dispute Settlement Body.
 Pointing to the normative unresolved issue, the option of resolving it by submitting amicus curiae applications to the WTO Dispute Settlement Body through one of the parties to the dispute is supported, the position of which is supported in the statement, which in turn would provide further clarification on the content of such a statement, which should have previously verified the accuracy of the data received from amicus curiae.
 It is concluded that, taking into account the crisis in the WTO in recent years, the realization of the potential of non-governmental organizations can have a positive impact on the recovery of the global trade system.